Rick Steves' Greece: Athens & the Peloponnese amazon.com
Bust: Greece, the Euro and the Sovereign Debt Crisis - By Matthew Lynn amazon.com
Greece's 'Odious' Debt: The Looting of the Hellenic Republic by the Euro, the Political Elite and the Investment Community - By Jason Manolopoulos amazon.com
Understanding the Crisis in Greece: From Boom to Bust - By Theodore Pelagidis amazon.com
The Imminent Crisis: Greek Debt and the Collapse of the European Monetary Union amazon.com
Eyewitness Greece - Athens and the Mainland - 352 Pages
Financial markets and economic growth in Greece, 1986-1999 [An article from: Journal of International Financial Markets, Institutions & Money]
Athens Demographics:
The population count for Athens was 10,964,020 in 2001. According to eurostat, in 2008 Greece had a total estimated population of 11,262,000. Of this, some 695,979 are estimated to be non-Greek.
July 30, 2010
768,009 Workers On Public Payroll
A special census of the Greek government work force has been concluded after a three week research of public offices and agencies, and established a number for the population of government workers, something previously unknown due to lack centralization of the government payroll system. Article at the Wall Street Journal by Alkman Granitsas:
" Apart from determining the size of the public-sector workforce, data from the census, which was concluded late Thursday, will be used to create a single, centralized government payment office for civil servants, something which doesn't currently exist.
Until now, no-one knew the exact number of public-sector workers in Greece. Previously, finance ministry officials estimated that the entire public-sector workforce at 700,000. But other estimates ranged as high as 1 million or more.
In early May, faced with sky-high borrowing costs and a record budget deficit, the Greek government agreed to a EUR110 billion loan package from the European Union and International Monetary Fund. "
The population of Greece in 2010 is estimated to be 11 million people.
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